It's a sonnet (not sestina).(Brief Article)

Word Ways | May 1, 2005| | Copyright

Did you know that Shakespeare's 115th sonnet contains a hidden message? When the poem is formatted with the appropriate font and character spacing, as shown below, the underlined letters spell IT'S A SONNET BY W.S. The second sonnet is an anagram of Shakespeare's, and contains its own similarly-arranged message. 

 
   THOSE LINES THAT I BEFORE HAVE WRIT DO LIE, 
   EVEN THOSE THAT SAID I COULD NOT LOVE YOU DEARER. 
   YET THEN MY JUDGMENT KNEW NO REASON WHY 
   MY MOST FULL FLAME SHOULD AFTERWARDS BURN CLEARER. 
   BUT RECKONING TIME, WHOSE MILLIONED ACCIDENTS 
   REEP IN ...

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